Talks with Perkins Foods Terminated

Greencore Group PLC
21 February 2000



                     Greencore Group plc
                              
                    Termination of talks
                              
Greencore Group plc ('Greencore'), announced on 19th
January, 2000, that it had made an approach to Perkins Foods
plc and that preliminary discussions had commenced.  The
Board of Greencore today announces that it has discontinued
these discussions.


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